RE: Accented IJ

At 10:34 AM 4/29/2003, Marco Cimarosti wrote:

> BTW, you could NOT encode that with the precomposed "?" (U+0133 <ij
> ligature>), because two accents applied to a single base character would
> display on top of each other.

There are ways to do this in an OpenType font, but it is definitely easier 
to do if you start from separate i and j characters, each followed by an 
acute accent and which may be ligated or not during display, than from a 
single ij character, which would need to be split into two glyphs, have the 
acute accents contextually reordered, and then possibly recomposed as a 
2-component ligature. The latter would require half a dozen lookups, 
including contextual substitutions, to handle what could be done done with 
one simple subsitution and one positioning lookup.

John Hudson

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